ERIC Number: ED536739
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 68
Abstractor: ERIC
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Predicting High School Outcomes in the Baltimore City Public Schools. The Senior Urban Education Research Fellowship Series. Volume VII
Mac Iver, Martha Abele; Messel, Matthew
Council of the Great City Schools
This study of high school outcomes in the Baltimore City Public Schools builds on substantial prior research on the early warning indicators of dropping out. It sought to investigate whether the same variables that predicted a non-graduation outcome in other urban districts--attendance, behavior problems, and course failure--were also significant predictors of non-graduation in Baltimore. The study specifically probed the relationship between eighth- and ninth-grade early warning indicators as predictors of graduation outcomes, as well as the relationship between ninth-grade indicators and college enrollment outcomes. The results are divided into three parts. Parts I and II present descriptive analyses of the data, including frequencies, cross-tabulations, means, and other descriptive summaries that show the relationship between various student behaviors/early warning indicators (such as absenteeism, GPA, or course failures) and high school graduation and college enrollment outcomes. Part III then reports the results of multi-level modeling analyses of the data, wherein the relative impact of eighth- and ninth-grade early warning indicators on high school graduation and college enrollment outcomes are presented. Appended are: (1) Data Definitions and Missing Data; and (2) Technical Results. (Contains 12 figures, 7 tables, and 51 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Enrollment, Behavior Problems, Public Schools, Student Behavior, Graduation, High Schools, Urban Education, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education, Educational Indicators, Academic Failure, Attendance Patterns, Potential Dropouts, Dropouts, Models, Student Characteristics, Prediction, Predictor Variables, Intervention, Educational Research, Middle Schools
Council of the Great City Schools. 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 702, Washington, DC 20004. Tel: 202-393-2427; Fax: 202-393-2400; Web site: http://www.cgcs.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 8; Grade 9; High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: Council of the Great City Schools
Identifiers - Location: Maryland
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